The most Orwellian feature of ObamaCare is its name, the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Countless studies and news stories have documented that PPACA is actually causing health care costs to RISE. And, as David Hogberg points out in IBD, all it “protects” patients from is access to care:
Recently, Washington state changed its Medicaid program so […]
Health Care BS
Medicaid BS —
Category Archives: Medicaid BS
OBAMACARE RATIONING HITS THE POOR
A NEW TURD IN THE OBAMACARE PUNCH BOWL
Ya gotta give it to Nancy Pelosi. She is a woman of her word. When she said we had to pass it to see what’s in it, she became the only Democrat to tell the truth about this idiotic law. Here’s the latest stinky surprise:
President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people […]
KIDS WITH MEDICAID “COVERAGE” HAVE LESS ACCESS TO ACTUAL CARE
As I have pointed out before, more than half of the uninsured to whom ObamaCare will allegedly provide health care will get it via the Medicaid program. Only one problem—Medicaid pays so poorly most doctors can’t afford to treat patients “covered” by the plan. The result is this:
Children with Medicaid are far more likely than those with […]
OBAMA DOJ TELLS SCOTUS THAT MEDICAID PATIENTS LACK LEGAL RIGHT TO SUE GOVT
One of the ways ObamaCare will “cover” the uninsured is by herding about 18 million people onto Medicaid. But the health care “reform” law doesn’t provide enough money to the states to pay for all these new enrollees. So, the states will increasingly have to cut provider payment rates.
This means that most of the “newly […]
VIDEO: OBAMACARE’S IMPACT ON DOCTORS
About 18 million of the patients ObamaCare will allegedly save from the awful fate of being uninsured will simply be signed up for Medicaid. Listen to this urologist describe what it’s like trying to get paid by Medicaid. Not only does Medicaid not pay enough to cover costs, it often doesn’t pay at all. Thus, […]
MORE THAN HALF OF THE STATES NOW SUING THE GOVERNMENT TO STOP OBAMACARE
When Maine became the twenty-third state to join the Florida lawsuit, that brought the number of states suing the government over “reform” to 25 (including seperate suits brought by Virginia and Oklahoma). Now it appears that Kansas has taken the number to 26:
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt sent a letter Wednesday seeking to join almost […]
RAND PAUL: THE DEM-MSM SMEAR DU JOUR
The hypocrisy of this particular Dem-MSM smear is absolutely breathtaking. After spending a year shoving government-run health care down the throats of an unwilling electorate, the Democrats and their media accomplices are attacking Dr. Paul for—-accepting patients covered by government medical coverage:
Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul says he opposes federal handouts, but the eye doctor takes government […]
REAGAN ON SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it seemed appropriate to post this 1960s audio of the Gipper’s warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
He believed that, once the […]
S. CAROLINA AG WILL LOOK AT NELSON’S BRIBE
It looks like South Carolina Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint are interested in the legality of Harry Reid’s payoff to Ben Nelson. The Nebraska Senator’s special Medicaid deal doesn’t pass the smell test, so they have asked their state AG to have a look:
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster said Tuesday that he intends […]
55 BILLION REASONS TO JUST SAY NO
The Office of Management and Budget just issued a report proving (for anyone susceptible to objective data) that government-run health care is a monumentally bad idea:
Improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs totaled $55 billion in fiscal 2009, according to documents provided by OMB.
Medicare and Medicaid, our progressive friends tell us, are the most […]